Numerical modeling of the global heliosphere provides key insights into the physics of the outer heliosphere. The solar wind data utilized by these models impacts their accuracy and should be as close as possible to the actual solar wind. Ideally,...

Continual improvements to clinical breast imaging technologies have led to ever earlier detections and increasingly accurate localizations of female breast cancers. While these advancements have certainly improved the prognoses of many patients,...

This thesis presents two-fluid simulations of forced magnetic reconnection with finite electron inertia in two and three dimensional periodic systems. Reconnection in the system is driven by a spatially localized forcing function, added to the ion...

Engineers have devised many techniques by which to raise the temperature of a cancer tumor 8 degrees above body temperature. Such treatment is called hyperthermia; experiments in vitro suggest it may be an effective adjunct to standard radition...

For ordinary knots in R 3 , there are no degree one Vassiliev invariants. For virtual knots, however, the space of degree one Vassiliev invariants is infinite dimensional. We introduce a sequence of three degree one Vassiliev invariants of virtual...

A two-dimensional continuously-stratified model is derived for the study of instability properties of oceanic density fronts in the presence of sloping bottom topography. While the model retains several traditional assumptions, such as uniformity...

In Western tonal music, the major mode is associated with positive emotions, and the minor mode is associated with negative emotions. Although this is a highly salient distinction, it is poorly understood. In 9 experiments, participants made...

Laser speckle monitoring is a way to measure the motion of an optically rough surface without making physical contact to that surface. Laser speckle is inherently sensitive to motion in the plane of the reflecting surface, which gives speckle...

Coal combustion remains an important source of toxic metal emissions. Dilute concentrations and poor understanding of their chemistries hinders reduction of these emissions. This thesis examines the chemistry of the trace metals arsenic and mercury...

The open lead on March 29, 1914 Travelling [traveling] over the ice amid pressure ridges (typed label: Traveling over the ice of the Arctic ocean. Hard going where the pressure has thrown the ice up into ridges. Please credit to: Geological...